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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – December 20-21, 2008

Posted on December 20, 2008 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban in Software Development. Part 3: Andon and Jidoka – Handling Bugs and Emergency Fixes in Kanban (Derick Bailey)
Oxite – An Example of How Not to Write MVC Applications (Casey Charlton)
Benefits of Root Cause Analysis (Raymond Lewallen)
Adding MSTest Results (.trx) Files to Your TeamCity Build Results (Derik Whittaker)
Acceptance Tests and Lazy Loading Considered Harmful (Scott Bellware)
The Anti-Architect (Bil Simser) – Link of the Day
When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices (Adam Buenz)

.NET / Visual Studio

I Couldn’t Think Up a Language of My Own (Jon Flanders)
Cleaning Up the VS Environment When Things Go Wrong (Darren Stokes)
Microsoft Blueprints – Release: November CTP Refresh 2.1.2 (CodePlex)
Moving Up From CodeRush Xpress to CodeRush (Mark Miller)
Book Review: Entity Framework Tutorial (Muhammad Mosa)

Web Development

A Little Holiday Love from the ASP.NET MVC Team (Phil Haack)
Adobe Acrobat Connect .NET SDK – Release (CodePlex)
Migrating a Versionable ASMX Web Services to WCF (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Screencast: Configuring Services with Behaviors (Aaron Skonnard)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (MS Downloads)
patterns & practices: Composite WPF and Silverlight – Release: Prism v2 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)
Fluent Animations in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release (Brad Abrams)
Updated Silverlight 2 DataGrid Available (John Papa)

.NET Community

PowerShell

Step Up Your FOREACH Game (Jeffrey Snover)

Database

SQL Server – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
Windows Azure Storage – Exploring Blobs (David Lemphers)

Miscellaneous

5 Ways to Keep Your Competitive Edge (Celine Roque)
Windows 7 Beta Imminent? and Microsoft Job Listings Reveal Zune Expansion Plans (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft Answers Launches Beta (Sarah Perez)
How Does the Windows Azure DataCenter Work? (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

Discoveries This Week 12/19/08 (Rick Minerich)
Silverlight Cream for December 19, 2008 — #461 and Silverlight Cream for December 20, 2008 — #462 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: December 19, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Visual Studio Links #90 (Darren Stokes)
Triple Shot Links #11 (Russell Ball)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 3 (Denis Gobo)
CloudNews for December 19th, 2008 (Sameer Gupta)
LINKBLOG for December 19, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight News for December 20, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
Management Improvement Carnival #50 (Corey Ladas)

Book of the Day

C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3: Jon Skeet: Books

ISBN: 1933988363
ISBN-13: 9781933988368

Technorati Tags: silverlight,wpf,prism,entity framework,oxite,powershell,sql server,sharepoint,coderush,windows azure,windows 7

Dew Drop – December 19, 2008

Posted on December 19, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Design / Methodology / Testing

White Paper on ORM (Stephen Forte)
How I’m Currently Writing My BDD Style Tests – Part 1 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Updated Version of the Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book Available! (Granville Barnett)
Getting Value Out of Your Unit Tests (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

The Death of System.DateTime? and MSBuild Script to Compress All JavaScript Files in a Project (Omer van Kloeten)
(Very) Tentative Steps with the Live Framework SDK (Mike Taulty)
Cloud Messaging Made Easy with Linxter (Brian Noyes)
Why We Need Named Parameters (Jimmy Bogard)
Dynamic Data: Associated Types and the Models They Love (Jonathan Carter)
Did You Know That Today’s Tip on msinfo32.exe Ends the Series? – #382 (Sara Ford)
String Extraction (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)
An Investigation into Routes (Kyle Baley)
MVC Controllers and Forms Authentication (Nikhil Kothari)
Sueetie – The Future in .NET Open Source Online Community Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 5 – Deploying in the Cloud (Maarten Balliauw)
On Oxite (Glenn Block)
Hot New Features Coming with ASP.NET MVC RC in January 09 (Simone Chiaretta)
Creating a REST WCF Service From an Existing XSD Schema (Keith Elder)
This Could Be Big. Sueetie Is Online! (Dave Burke) – Link of the Day
Friday Books – jQuery Reference Guide (Dave M. Bush)

Silverlight / WPF

Patient Journey Demonstrator December 2008 Released (Martin Grayson)
Making the WPF Slider Control Behave (Karsten Januszewski)
Now Available: Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2! (John Papa)
WPF Application Quality Guide (jytylr)
WPF DataGrid Sample: Locking Input to the Row Being Edited (Vincent Sibal)
Bubbles – 1 Chart – Three Axes (Jesse Liberty)

.NET Community / Events

2009 Goals (Pete Brown)
Webcast Schedule for January 2009 (Nandita)
Congratulations Sara Ford! (Shawn Wildermuth)
ALT.NET Is the Opposition Party (Nate Kohari)

Miscellaneous

Your Developer Horoscope (K. Scott Allen)
Top 10 Most Annoying & Overplayed Phrases or Actions in the Workplace (Dave Schinkel)
The Perfect Time to Release Source Code? (Robert Muehsig)
8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
Microsoft Digs Into PHP (Matt Asay)
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 18, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 — #459 and Silverlight Cream for December 18, 2008 – 2 — #460 (Dave Campbell)
Visual Studio Links #89 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: 2008.12.12~2008.12.18 (yuanjian)
Links (12/18/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #248 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for December 19, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

jQuery Reference Guide: A Comprehensive Exploration of the Popular JavaScript Library: Jonathan Chaffer: Books

ISBN: 1847193811
ISBN-13: 9781847193810

Technorati Tags: jquery,silverlight,wpf,oxite,windows azure,windows live sdk,php,asp.net mvc,sueetie,bdd,unit testing

Dew Drop – December 16, 2008

Posted on December 16, 2008 | by Alvin A. | 3 Comments

Lots of buzz around Oxite today… not exactly positive buzz.

.NET / Visual Studio

Advanced C# – Unsafe Mode (Dave M. Bush)
Learn a New Language Every Year? (Julie Lerman)
Debugging UI (Aaron Lerch)
Launched My Personal CodePlex Project: http://www.codeplex.com/mostlylucid (Scott Galloway)
Windsor WCF Integration (Mike Hadlow)
Using Classifications in MGrammar’s Intellipad and ADO.NET Data Services for Multiple Databases? (Shawn Wildermuth)
Dynamic Data: Annotating Your Data-Driven World (Jonathan Carter)
SonicFileFinder 2.1 Released (Jens Schaller via Roland Weigelt)
Query Data with Parallel LINQ (Charlie Calvert)

Web Development

Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) – The Model-View-Controller Pattern (Nick Berardi)
Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML (Brian Reindel)
Redirect Routes and Other Fun with Routing and Lambdas (Phil Haack)
New ASP.NET MVC Sample – Oxite – Needs Some TLC (Scott Koon)
IE8 Readiness and IETester (Sergio Pereira)
Removing the .SVC Extension from WCF REST URLs (Rick Strahl)
ASP.NET Development: MVC vs. Web Forms (Rachel Appel)
XSS Follow Up: Search Suck (Rob Conery)
Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?! (Karl Seguin)
Oxite (Javier G. Lozano)
CarTrackr on Windows Azure – Part 2 – Cloud-Enabling CarTrackr (Maarten Balliauw)
A Tale of WebTests, IIS Application Pools and Assembly Load Exceptions (Josh Twist)
My Quick Take on Oxite (Chad Myers)
MVC/jQuery Meets Xmas Music Project (Josh Schwartzberg)
jQuery – Calling Your Own Functions (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban in Software Development. Part 2.5: A Variation on Queues – Pipelines for WIP and Done (Derick Bailey)
Functional Programming Unit Testing – Part 3 (Matthew Podwysocki)
Business Readable DSL (Martin Fowler)
How My Team Does Agile (Tom Hollander)
UML Request for Information (Cameron Skinner)
Framework Design Guidelines: An Appeal for Consistency (Brad Abrams)
Introduction to TestAPI – Part 1: Input Injection APIs (Ivo Manolov)
Domain Models in Presentation Frameworks (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
Model Driven Development with “Oslo” (Gunther Lenz)
SOA Anti-Pattern: The Knot (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)

Silverlight / WPF

Unity for Silverlight from patterns & practices (Ade Miller)
Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF (Walt Ritscher)
What Can You Make with 10k of Silverlight or WPF? (Adam Kinney)
My WPF Bookshelf (Roland Weigelt)
Silverlight SEO (Boyan Mihaylov)

Database

Generating XML Schema Documents Using SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server 2005 SP3 (MS Downloads)
SQL Server – Find Collation of Database and Table Column Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Has Been Released (Denis Gobo)
Database Normalization (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Technologies (MS Downloads)
Announcing the WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)
Microsoft Releases a WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint and SharePoint Workflow Forms Development with ASP.NET 2.0 Pages… Without the Pain! (Andrew Connell)

Events / Community

Video NINE Questions with Jennifer Marsman (Chris G. Williams)
Events This Week – December 15th, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
2008: A Developer’s Retrospective (Meera Subbarao)

Miscellaneous

Second Birthday for CodeClimber and Windows Live Writer 2009 RC Released (Simone Chiaretta)
Photosynth Experimental Silverlight Viewer, View Synths on Any Computer and Windows Live Essentials Beta Released (Sunshine)
Zapproved Opens Doors to Help You with Approvals (Aliza Sherman)
Two Resources for Web Workers: Finding Jobs and Professional Development (Darrell Etherington)
Mooncake Brings DeepZoom to Flickr and SmugMug (Sarah Perez)
Why Isn’t a Good Team Player Good for a Team? (Andy Singleton)
Windows 7: Continuing Our Discussion on Performance (Michael Fortin & Steven Sinofsky)
Easy, Efficient Hi-Def Video Playback (Jeff Atwood)
Is Programming Really Appropriate for a Seven Year Old? (Brian Reindel)
Info: What I’m Running (Eric Charran)
Live Mesh: The Killer App for Netbooks (Steve Clayton)
Gingerbread Architecture for All (Aidan Chopra)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 15, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2008 — #456 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for December 15, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
CloudNews for December 15th, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
Links of the Week #64 (David Vidmar)
New and Notable 281 (Sam Gentile)
The Morning Brew #245 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight News for December 16, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

Book of the Day

Microsoft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (PRO-Developer): Dino Esposito, Andrea Saltarello: Books

ISBN: 073562609X
ISBN-13: 9780735626096

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